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A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.

David Lynch

Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
DAVID LYNCH

Black Dreams Love Start Yourself
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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Beautiful Catch Ideas Love Small
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Head Intuition Life Philosophy Spiritual
I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
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Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Creativity Human Ocean
We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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Dreams Image Ourselves
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
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Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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Play Sound Visual
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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Big Forget Mental Remember
There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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Fear Mystery Unknown
I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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Acceptance Art Expectation Life Myself People
A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.
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Add Discover Ideal Movie World
Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.
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Creation Kill Movie Yourself
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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Childhood Disturb Happiness
We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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Achievement Creativity Electricity Goal Music Peace Thrill
If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.
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Desire Eyes Temptation Work Yourself
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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Animal Beautiful Discover Myself World
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
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Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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Darkness Fire Future Magic Myself Past See Walk
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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Allow Complication Life Movie
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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Myself Necessary Remember Way
I just like going into strange worlds.
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Myself Strange World
Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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Ideas Mystery Oneself
I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
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Creativity Deep Effort Energy Happiness Meditation Myself Start Transcendence
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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Abstract Art Sanity
The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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Be Yourself Meditation
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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Ocean Oneself Purity Vibrant

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